Alternative spelling of laughing stock.

Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils. / A crown of laurel.

(transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath. / (transitive) To enwreathe. / (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.

(now rare) Fitted to excite laughter; humorous. / Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

(sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

(dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate. / A graduate of a university.

(intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

(transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force. / (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.

The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)